LOK SABHA ELECTIONS BRS facing uphill task in undivided Khammam district

The BRS is facing an uphill task in undivided Khammam district. Khammam district politics always throw a challenge to BRS chief and former chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao. Even in the new state of Telangana, the BRS had to strain every nerve to win seats in the district.
In the 2014, 2018 and 2023 elections, the BRS faced a tough fight.
Jalagam Venkat Rao was elected from Kothagudem on car symbol in 2014. In 2018, Puvvada Ajay was elected on the party symbol. After the election, five Congress MLAs and two TDP MLAs defected to the BRS.
In the 2023 elections, lone BRS candidate Tellam Venkat Rao was elected to the Assembly from Bhadrachalam seat. But, he joined the Congress recently. Therefore, there was no representation for the BRS in the Assembly from the undivided Khammam district.
The party has two Rajya Sabha members and one MLC representing the party.
None is joining the BRS, but many are bidding goodbye to the party. Those who have joined the BRS from Congress and BJP during the last Assembly elections are now leaving the party to join the Congress.
Meanwhile, KCR is undertaking a two-day tour in Khammam district from April 29. The BRS leaders have been making suitable arrangements. Surprisingly, ahead of the tour, BRS youth wing president Chintanippu Krishna Chaitanya quit the BRS.
It has become a huge task for KCR to boost the morale of the party cadre. Safeguarding those who have been in the BRS since the days of the Telangana movement and leading the party in the current Lok Sabha elections and the subsequent Panchayat elections is a huge task before KCR.